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UNDP

Specialty Definition: UNDP

DomainDefinition

Census

(United Nations Development Program) Established 1965. A program established to assist developing countries build more productive economies based on the most productive and efficient use of natural and human resources. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: UNDP

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

UNDP

DutchOntwikkelingsprogramma v.d.VNN/A

UNDP

EnglishUnited Nations Development ProgramEconomics, International Organizations

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: UNDP

Specialty definitions using "UNDP": Governing CouncilUNDTCD. (references)

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Commercial Usage: UNDP

DomainTitle

Books

  • KENYA: UNDP DISPLACED PERSONS (reference)

  • From redeployment to sustained employment generation : challenges for Ghana's programme of economic recovery and development : report of an ILO/JASPA employment advisory mission to Ghana under component 13 of the UNDP umbrella project GHA/85/010 on streng (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: UNDP

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The UNDP provides technical training at China's Automobile Technology Research Center. (references)

They include the World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), the UN Development Program (UNDP) and the UN Industrial Development Program (UNIDO), and Japan's Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF). (references)

Children

Yemen

According to a UNDP report released during the year, average student attendance in primary schools is 76 percent for boys and 40 percent for girls. (references)

Yemen

The UNDP estimates that 30 percent of children are malnourished; a 1997 demographic study by the Government put this figure at 50 percent, and indicated that half of all children under 5 years of age exhibit stunted growth. (references)

Economic History

Paraguay

Annual population growth rate: 2.3% (projected 1999-2015, UNDP). (references)

Human Rights

Mongolia

A smaller operation functions under the U.N. Development Program (UNDP). (references)

Mozambique

Unlike in the previous year, the DHD and the UNDP did not visit jails or prisons. (references)

Yemen

The UNDP continues to seek donor funding for the program, which had not begun by year's end. (references)

Minorities

Cameroon

Although the UNDP party is based largely in the Fulani community, the ruling CPDM party has long been perceived widely to represent Fulani as well as Beti-Bulu interests. (references)

Political Rights

Cameroon

In December 1997, after the Supreme Court announced the official election results declaring President Biya the winner with 92.57 percent of the vote, the UNDP, which previously had been an opposition party, joined the CPDM in a coalition government. (references)

Trade

South Africa

United Nations Development Program (UNDP). (references)

Women

Guyana

The Women's Leadership Institute, a collaborative effort between the Government and the UNDP, seeks through education and training to facilitate greater women's participation in government and the private sector. (references)

Worker Rights

India

The Government also cooperates with UNICEF, UNESCO, the UNDP, and the ILO in its efforts to eliminate child labor. (references)

Ukraine

In a 1999 report, the UNDP identified graft of officials and political corruption as two of the factors causing the spread of trafficking and prostitution. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: UNDP

"UNDP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 47.37% of the time. "UNDP" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)47.37%9117,287
Lexical Verb (base form)31.58%6143,867
Noun (proper)10.53%2245,945
Noun (common)10.53%2245,945
                    Total100.00%19N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: UNDP

Language Translations for "UNDP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

ensz fejlesztési program (united nations development programme). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

undpay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: UNDP

Derivations

Words containing "UNDP": soundproof, soundproofed, soundproofing, soundproofs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: UNDP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-n-p-u"

-1 letter: dun, dup, pud, pun.

-2 letters: nu, un, up.

 Words containing the letters "d-n-p-u"
 

+1 letter: pound, upend.

 

+2 letters: duping, pounds, pruned, pundit, punned, punted, sendup, unipod, unpaid, upbind, upends, upland, upsend, upwind, windup.

 

+3 letters: dauphin, duckpin, dumping, dupping, dustpan, expound, impound, pandour, pandura, pinguid, plunder, plunged, plunked, pounced, poundal, pounded, pounder, prudent, pudding, pudency, pudenda, punched, pundits, pungled, putdown, roundup, sendups, spunked, spurned, standup, suspend, undrape, unhoped, unipods, unpaged, unpaved, unpiled, unposed, unroped, upbinds, upbound, upended, uplands, upsends, upstand, uptrend, upwinds, windups.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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